India has announced plans to ease lockdown even as the country reported daily record rise in new coronavirus cases.
Restaurants, hotels, places of worship and shopping centres will be allowed to reopen from 8th June.
Weeks later, probably in July, Schools and colleges will reopen too.
Night curfews will remain in place but will be shortened by two hours.
However, places with high number of cases will remain under tight lockdown.
The plan comes after the country recorded nearly 8,000 coronavirus cases on Saturday.
More than 174,000 cases have been confirmed in India with the virus claiming about 5,000 lives.
The country went into lockdown about two months ago when confirmed cases were in hundreds.
However, the country’s economy has been hit hard and pictures of millions of informal workers leaving cities for their villages after losing their jobs – some on foot – shocked the nation.
More than 80% of the active cases are in 5 states – Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
The number of infections for every 100 tests in Maharashtra is three times the national average.
The government of India says people will be restricted from moving between containment zones and non-containment zones but there will be no restriction on travelling across the sates.
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